faced with attacks, no one has “the monopoly on injury”, criticizes François Piquemal, LFI deputy for Haute-Garonne

The abolition of the offense of glorifying terrorism, a “major political mistake“, as the first secretary of the PS asserts?”There is no question of repealing the offense of advocating terrorism, but of bringing it back to press law, where it was severely punished“, corrects François Piquemal, LFI deputy for Haute-Garonne. He also says “quite shocked and shocked” of “instrumentalization” made of this proposed law, requested in particular, he recalls, by the anti-terrorism judge Marc Trévidic and previously Jacques Toubon when he was a rights defender.

“The monopoly on injury in the face of terrorist attacks, no one has it in this country”, continues François Piquemal. “I have no lessons to learn on this“, he adds, specifying that he comes from a city [Toulouse, NDLR] “deeply wounded by the terrorist attacks and killings of Mohammed Merah in March 2012″. The MP, who recalls having notably tabled a bill on rent control, also denounces “a fairly significant choice of information hierarchy.

A “non-debate of fact” so for François Piquemal, on “something which could be seen as an asset in the fight against terrorism, but which is not one, since today it is used and misused (…) to pursue activists, and in particular environmental activists.“

Watch the full interview in the video above